| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10673140 | CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
In product life cycle design, a designer should design both a product and its life cycle. Although CAD systems for product design are popular, there are no CAD systems for life cycle design. This paper proposes LC-CAD (Life Cycle-CAD) that represents a product and its life cycle in an integrated manner, manages consistency between these two models, and describes changes of a product along its life cycle (e.g., a component is shredded into fragments of metal in a recycling process). LC-CAD also evaluates environmental, economic, and other performance of designed life cycle using life cycle simulation.
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Authors
Yasushi Umeda, Shinichi Fukushige, Eisuke Kunii, Yuki Matsuyama,